(Don Cook, Chick Rains)



The lights of Laredo dance on the water

and shine in a young man's eyes.

Who stand on the border and dreams of paradise.

He's heard crazy stories of how people live over in the promised land.

He heard they eat three meals a day, just across the Rio Grande.

He's got a wife named Maria, and a baby

named Rose, and another one to feed on the way.

Two willing hands, that couldn't find work today.

He stares at the river and curses the future,

that he can't understand.

He knows the child would have a chance, just

across the Rio Grande.



It's only a river,

that's not so deep or wide.

A boy can throw a stone across and

reach the other side. It's just some

muddy water, cutting through the land.

But a man can make a dream come true

just across the Rio Grande.



The lights of Laredo dance on the water and

shine in a young man's eyes. Who stand on the

border and dreams of paradise.

He's heard crazy stories of how good life is

over in the promised land, and

sometimes it seems like God must live just

across the Rio Grande.



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